Washington alone may sue for redress. It rarely happens. Criminally prosecuting top officials never follows. They're free to steal again. They take full advantage.

No one knows for sure what's coming when. The late Bob Chapman warned about impending crisis conditions. He predicted an eventual house of cards collapse. Only its timing remains uncertain. It could come any time from now to 2017, he believed.

America's economy is much weaker than reported. Europe's in crisis. Conditions have been deteriorating for years.

Bailouts at best buy time. They delay eventual day of reckoning final say. They assure greater trouble. Burdensome debt gets more onerous and harder to repay. Solving a debt crisis by adding more assures failure.

Billionaire investor George Soros warns about a potential EU breakup. He compared it to Soviet Russia's dissolution. "The European project is stalled," he said.

"And if it can't go ahead from here, it will go backwards. (T)he euro will go to pieces and the European Union, too."

His country faces crisis conditions. Unemployment exceeds 25%. Youth unemployment tops 50%. Austerity is prioritized when stimulus is needed. Rajoy enriches himself while impoverishing his people.

He lied to Spanish citizens. He denies troubled conditions. He claims bankrupt Spanish banks are solvent. Public rage rejects him.

"There can be absolutely no trust in" politicians like him. Transparency doesn't exist. Nor do fairness or sound policies. "The EU crisis will (fester) until this sort of corruption, fraud," and government malpractice ends.

Things aren't improving. They're worsening. The European house of cards heads for collapse. Responsible parties include prime ministers, financial ministers, treasurers, and ECB head Mario Draghi.

France is deeply troubled. Wealthy people are fleeing. "(T)he economy has begun to implode."

Months earlier, Germany examined the impact of economic collapse.

"German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has asked a panel of advisers to look into reform proposals for France, concerned that weakness in the euro zone’s second largest economy could come back to haunt Germany and the broader currency bloc."

Two officials spoke on condition of anonymity. They drafted a report on what France should do. So-called "wise men" said:

"The biggest problem at the moment in the euro zone is no longer Greece, Spain or Italy, instead it is France, because it has not undertaken anything in order to truly re-establish its competitiveness, and is even heading in the opposite direction."

In 2012 Q IV, the Eurozone economy declined 0.6%. France is teetering. Powerhouse Germany shows weakness. Britain's in recession. Major economies are too big to bail out. Day of reckoning time may arrive sooner than expected.

Summers expects trouble in 2013. European reality suggests collapse, he says. "It's only a matter of time." It'll be far worse than 2008 when it happens.

Jobs, benefits, living standards, futures and economies are wrecked for profits. Institutionalized inequality is policy. It's hard imagining why people don't resist. The only solution is world revolution.

George Bernard Shaw once said "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes elections by the incompetent many for the appointment of the corrupt few." Western societies offer proof.

Obama governs to the right of George Bush. He wages war on humanity. He looted the nation’s wealth. He wrecked the economy.

He sacrificed people needs and institutionalized tyranny. He presides over a bogus democracy under a repressive police state apparatus.

Trends watcher Gerald Celente says "the entire financial system is collapsing." Ponzi scheme economics alone keeps it afloat. What can't go on forever, won't. Collapse will come in the fullness of time.

Neoliberal priorities let essential public needs go begging. How much more people will take before erupting remains to be seen. The longer fiscal pain continues, the closer an ultimate day of reckoning approaches. It'll arrive disruptively.

Predatory finance is a new form of warfare. It's more destructive than standing armies. It wrecks millions of lives. People don't have enough to live on. Venal politicians support policies this harmful.

When pain levels cross a threshold of no return, all bets are off. Celente says "(w)hen people lose everything and have nothing else to lose, they lose it."

Hopefully it'll be soon enough to matter. The world can't tolerate much more.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."

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